Milan Babic

Milan Babic (26 February 1956-5 March 2006) was President of Serbian Krajina from 19 December 1991 to 16 February 1992 (preceding Goran Hadzic) and Prime Minister from 27 July to 7 August 1995 (succeeding Borislav Mikelic).

Biography
Milan Babic was born in Kukar, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia in 1956 to a family of Serbs, and he became one of the directors of the Knin medical center in 1989. In 1990, he joined the new Serb Democratic Party of Croatia, and he became President of the Municipal Assembly of Knin. After the Republic of Serbian Krajina was proclaimed in 1991, Babic became its first president, and he served until February 1992; in 1995, he briefly served as Prime Minister. The Serbian secret police in Belgrade came to dominate Krajina politics, and Babic would testify against Slobodan Milosevic during the ICTY war crimes tribunal in 2002. In 2004, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and he hanged himself with his own leather belt in 2006.